on 07/23/05 14:33 'Ian Lynch' wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 15:12 -0400, Chad Smith wrote:
At least it annoys me.
I think you are missing the point. Its not disc space, but the sheer
volume of mail to read and sort through on many lists. This is
particulary so when the person posts is not subscribed and generates a
thread they never read!
Please end your campaign for control of other people's email, and stop
this annoying ranting.
Good manners and etiquette annoying? I didn't detect too much ranting,
just a pretty reasonable request to try and reduce traffic.
Ian - You may be missing the point. The original poster is asking that
traffic on the list be shortened and copies to unsubscribed posters be
eliminated. Chad got annoyed at that and considered the whiny post
annoying and a rant. So did I. The original post had *nothing* to do
with good manners and etiquette. It was a complaint against a commonly
accepted practice in the OOo lists for dealing with unsubscribed list
posters.
It is a never-ending quest to find an effective way to communicate with
the great masses of unsubscribed posters. I believe this topic gets
raised approximately every 5.326 weeks, more or less, depending on the
galactic position.... There is no need to beat the dead horse. Again. I
believe that may have been Chad's primary point. I know it is mine.
I have found one very effective way to deal with the message list
traffic I don't want to read - I delete it. I don't complain that I
can't make it go away. Personally off-topic messages on a message list
is a fact of message list life. One either adapts or unsubscribes.
Complaining about how it works is inane.
oldgnome
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